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| Name: | Lilyan Chauvin |
| Character: | Vedek Yassim |
| Born: | 7 May 1925 |
| Place: | Paris, France |
Lilyan Chauvin was born on 7 May 1925. She played Vedek Yassim in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Rocks and Shoals".
She made her acting debut in "Letter from Cairo", a 1953 episode of the decade running series, Studio One. The following year, she guest-starred in Crusader. Brian Keith played the lead role, Matt Anders in the series. In the same year, she guest-starred in The Adventures of Jim Bowie. Future TOS and DS9 guest star William Schallert played Justinian Tebbs in five episodes of that series.
In 1958, she made her first credited motion picture appearance in Lost, Lonely and Vicious. In 1960 she starred in Walk Like a Dragon and North to Alaska. In the rest of the 1960s she appeared in Bloodlust!, Back Street, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Two Weeks in Another Town, Tickle Me and Yours, Mine and Ours.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s she appeared in a wide variety of motion pictures and television movies, nearly always playing French characters. In 1977, she starred in Telly Savalas' Beyond Reason. Diana Muldaur played Elaine in that movie. In 1980 she starred with Alan Oppenheimer in Private Benjamin. In 1984, she played the lead role in the horror film Silent Night, Deadly Night, playing the Mother Superior, perhaps her best-known role.
Her first motion picture roles of the last decade of the 20th century came in the 1990 movies Bad Influence and Predator 2. Two years later, she starred in Universal Soldier with Leon Rippy and Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr.. In 1993's No Place to Hide, she played another Mother Superior. Dey Young also appeared in the movie. She starred with DS9 star Andrew Robinson in Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings.
In 2002 she starred in Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can. Malachi Throne, Thomas Kopache, Jimmie F. Skaggs and J. Patrick McCormack also starred. In 2005 she appeared in The Passing.
Her television roles of the 1990s include guest appearances in Baywatch, Murder, She Wrote, The X-Files, Friends (as Joey's grandmother) and Frasier.
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- Lilyan Chauvin at Wikipedia